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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. G. HARVEY 8n W. R. GRUN DY.

FILE FOR LETTERS AND PAPERS.

No. 478,695. Patent qdlplyQZ, 1892.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-$heet 2. G. HARVEY 81; W. R, GRUNDY.

FILE FOR LETTERS AND PAPERS.

No. 478,695. Patented July 12,-1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE HARVEY AND WILLIAM RICHARD GRUNDY, OF WINNIPEG, CANADA,

,FILE FOR LETTERS AND PAPl-ZRS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 47 8,695, dated. July 12, 1892.

Application filed November 25, 1891. Serial No. 413,046. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern: together; and Fig. 4. is a section similar to Be it known that we, GEORGE HARVEY and Fig. 2 of a portion'of the file, illustrating a WILLIAM RICHARD GRUNDY, subjects of the modification. 55 Queen of England, residing at Winnipeg. in Reference now being had to the details of 5 the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have inthe drawings by letter, A designates the upvented certain new and useful Improvements per, and A the lower, cover, constructed of in Files for Letters and Papers; and we do card-board or any other suitable or desirable declare the following to be a full, clear, and material and united together by a flexible 6o exact description of the invention, such as binding-strip B of leather,'cloth or any other will enable others skilled in the art to which material that taste or necessity may dictate. it appertains to make and use the same, refer, On the under sideof the upper cover, near the ence being had to the accompanying drawpoint of attachment of the flexible strip B, are ings, and to the letters of reference marked two eyes a a, located at equal distances from 65 thereon, which form a part of this specificathe edges or sides thereof, through which i passes a cord 0, that from each eye has an Our invention relates to certain new and end that passes from thence through openuseful improvements in files for letters and ings d in a number of indexed sheets D, beother papers of such description as are needed tween the covers, to and through an eye a on 0 for orderly preservation in condition for ready the inside of the lower cover A, being from reference; and it relates more particularly to it carried to or nearly to the middle of the that class of files which have the general aplatter, where it is attached to one end of an pearance of a book, consisting of a back and. elastic device E, which maybe a piece ofr b covers, between which are a number of indexber," elastic cord, or a smalled diameter-coiled 7 5 sheets of paper, between which the papers to spring, whose other end is secured to the cover be filed are orderly placed. A near its edge' By means of the elastic de- Oneof the objects of the invention is to provices E and the cords C it will be seen that vide a fil f this description which willadinit the covers will be tightly drawn together upon oftheexpeditious filingand removal of papers the indexed sheets D at the point at which and which shall be simple and durable in its the cord passes through the latter, and of 0 construction and cheap of manufacture. course any letters or other papers which may To these ends and to such others as the inbe placedbetween the sheets with their edges vention may pertain the same consists of the at the same point will likewise be tightly and peculiar construction and in the novel comsecurely clamped and held. 3 bination, arrangement, and adaptation of To supplement and assist the elastic de- 3 5 parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, vices E, we provide an elastic band F, which shown in the accompanying drawings, and is placed between the covers and around the then specifically defined in the appended collection of indexed sheets D just in adclaim. Vance of the cord 0 where it passes through 0 The invention is fullyillustrated in the acthe latter, which elastic band is attached to 40 companying drawings, which, with the letters both covers by means of wire loops f f, se-

of reference marked thereon, form a part of cured on both edges of the covers, with the this specificatiomlike letters of reference inloops on adjacent edges opposite each other, dicating the same parts throughout the sevthe said band passing through the loops. Beeral Views, and in whichdrawings ing under tension, the band thus arranged 45 Fi 1 is a perspective View of our file tends to draw the covers together and to shown opened and with the index-sheets reclamp them on whatever may be placed bemoved for clearness of illustration. Fig. 2 is tween them.

a longitudinal section thereof with the index- Thus constructed the manner of using the sheets in place and in a closed position. Fig. device is as follows: Having by reference t 5o 3 is a transverse section taken on the line or the index-sheets located the proper place for :r, Fig. 2, passing through the point where the the paper to be filed, the paper is simply artwo covers and the indexed sheets are held ranged so that its top edge will be at a point "therein.

equal to the full capacityof 'thesfile -thecoversg.

will always be drawn with the requisite clamp ing pressure, the same being thus self-adjust-' ing and making thebulk of the file var-ywith and depend upon the n u mber of papers placed For convenience in use and for refer'enceto the contents :ofthe file the' top cover Adsm'ade flexible or hinged at G just in advanceo't' the: elastic-band-attaching loops f, so as .to leave? at A a stiff or 'rigi'dtpiece to-constitute wpanta for clampingjpurposes. Thishi-ng'in g'or 1na*-k= :ing i'flexible :the :top "coveryalthough preferable, not necessaqgandthe sanie .maybe dispensed with, if desired, as-shown in iF'ig. 4,

as may also the: supplementaryrclampingtdevice F, as showniinrsaid-figure. Wealsmcon template using a single elastic device E by: joining the ifreezends of the cord C and conmeeting the single device E to both. i

'To hold the covers closely'itogethersat their front edges when the file isnot in use,we employ an elastic :strip 1H, fixedly attached atone end to one cover and having its other end adapted to be detachably engaged with the button or hook I on the other end.

With a View to the exclusion of dust, &c., without providing a special case for the file, we propose to provide at eachside and one end'yas-s'hown in'dotted linesi'n Figs. '1 and 2, flaps K K K, of either paper or cloth, havting oneiedge attached to the cover, which can be folded over the sides and end of the file and contents when closed.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim to benew, and desire to secure by Letiters Patent, is-

In combination, the two backs or covers, a cord secured toone andpassed through:guidcing-ey-es in therotheig'an -':elastic device :connected Ito the last-named icover :andito teach =end of said cord, the supplementary :e'lastic bandyand-the iloopson the coversvfor securing it ithereto, one o'f saidcovers being ihinged :in :advance of said supplementary ban'd, substantially as and forthe :purpose idescribed.

I-ntestimonywhereof weaffix oursiguatures *in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE HARVEY. WILLIAM RICHARD GR'UNDY.

' Witnesses:

ALBERT WALSH ALAN OHAMBRE, ALLAN SY-ME. 

